Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals
WhoFi: Unique 'fingerprint' based on Wi-Fi interactions
Wi-Fi spy with my little eye that same guy I saw at another hotspot
YAY!
No seriously stop inventing these systems. Like what positive outcome could there be but mass surveillance and attacks on peoples.
Twist: We can also be tracked by how we stop light...
not if you just run all the reds
this one made me feel immensely better about this bs, thank you for posting
Its 2020, the year two thousand.
We are robots.
We can track humans via the unique way cancer cells disrupt Wi-Fi signals.
Too bad we haven't found a good way to detect or cure cancer.
8G signals can scan the human body based primarily on the amount of HIV virus.
Anyway, we're still far away from a cure but we can tell if you have HIV thru our illness app.
Welp, time to start wearing clothes with movable wifi blocking patches in them, I guess...
privacy preserving bio modality? Privacy? PRIVACY??? YOURE USING WIFI TO PINPOINT PEOPLE'S POSITION, WHICH PART OF THIS IS "PRIVACY"?
It tracks the location of a body (or anything else that causes the same sort if interference), but it doesn't identify the person, and as such they can reasonably make the claim that this technology is privacy preserving.
Of course, as with anything that claims to anonymise data, or preserve privacy, that assertion starts to fall down when you use the resulting data in conjunction with other data sources, even if they too claim to be privacy preserving.
The tech has been around for a few years https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wi-fi-routers-used-to-detect-human-locations-poses-within-a-room
The WiFi tracking tech is not too new, but re-identification of subjects is. That is, instead of the shopping centre having to build up their own database to profile you, they can just match your unique biomarker to a external data broker's database, supposedly.
a biomarker data broker, the future is grim
Waiting for the invention what, when, and where-fi.
Expressing my 10th frustrated sighof the day
Honestly, this sounds like a company with no real product trying to fleece law enforcement and government officials who are already drunk on the power of surveillance.
Sure and I heard you can listen to conversations that happened in rooms by measuring the slow liqufaction of the glass in the windows
Finally, a use for my lead paint spattered coverall